I lost four spokes on my morning commute when the chain decided to jump off the big cog. Of course I don’t have a spoke protector. (Who needs a dork disc? Bad things won’t happen if you keep your bike maintained. /s) I was lucky to skid to a stop rather than crash when the rear wheel locked up.
PSA: keep a few zip ties in your repair kit.
What a bummer! This looks like you impaled your hand with half a dozen spokes
I love that all it takes to stop people from using something helpful is give it a shameful alliterative name like “dork disc” 😅
I had one broken spoke in around 40 years of cycling. I always thought it was basically impossible to break them, even if the bike is 20+ years old. I guess you just need the right (wrong?) circumstances…
I’ve seen what a splintered carbon arrow can do, and for a very short moment I thought the image was actually showing something like that. Still sucks, though.
Honestly if they broke that easily it was only a matter of time before a big shock to the rear wheel did the same thing
